Expedition Volume 46, Number 2 Summer 2004

Special Issue: Ritual Places
Cover: Photo by T.J. Ferguson, 1999. A Hopi itaakuku (footprint) near Flagstaff, Arizona.

Features
Unprecedented Projects--The Birth of Mesoamerican Pyramids
Rosemary A. Joyce

The Multiple Landscapes of Vijayanagara--From the Mythic and the Ritual to the Kingly and the Common
Alexandra Mack

The Amazonian House--A Place of Women's Politics, Pottery, and Prestige
Brenda J. Bowser

Ang Kuktota--Hopi Ancestral Sites and Cultural Landscapes
Leigh J. Kuwanwisiwma and T. J. Ferguson

Watch or Water Towers? Stone-Built Sites in Northern Cameroon's Mandara Mountains and Their Functions
Nicholas David

Departments
From the Editor

Meet the New Director--Richard M. Leventhal

Portrait--Reminiscences: An Appreciation of Mary Virginia Harris

Book News & Reviews: Evolution and the Peopling of the Americas

Museum Mosaic: People, Places, Projects

What in the World: Glittering Gold